14 December 2013

Reel Rock 8 - It does not get any better!

Bigupproductions is the most known climbing video producer in the world and out of the Top-10 films ever, at least five of them are produced by Josh Lowell and Big Up's together with Sender Films and almost all of them include great Chris Sharma action and vision. To say that Reel Rock 8 is the very best ever is to take big words but I will take the chance. In fact, it is so nice so you could put almost every part on that so called Top-10 list and my absolute favorite is the 18 min story of how Adam Ondra and Chris Sharma opened La Dura Dura 9b+. We have often heard Sharma screaming and pushing hard but sitting in a camera following and listening to Ondra it is actually totally mind-blowing. He is like a pitbull ballerina fighting for his life and even Sharma says he learnt from that. However, no words can describe the intensity during the 60 seconds he is doing the two cruxes.... Apart from that my second choice is the Hirayama and Woods story opening 9a and 9a+ at Mt Kinabalu at almost 4 000 metres. The interaction and the different perspectives from the master and his prodigy is just phenomenal and funny. As I am running out of positive words in my vocabulary I would like to finish by saying that it is actually a feel good film making you very happy to be apart of the climbing community with all it's varieties, great personalities, spectacular sceneries and lot of adrenaline. Thank you very much, Josh!
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